Elmira Rafizadeh

A 13-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys' choir to save his father who was left stranded in Hungary, and clashes with the strict choir master.

이란 출신으로 독일에서 활동하는 알리 수잔데가 각본을 쓰고 연출한 애니메이션으로, 테헤란의 밤을 배경으로 상처 입은 어른의 이야기가 펼쳐진다. 영화는 엄격한 종교적 도덕률과 사회적 규범의 베일을 걷으면 드러나는 어둠의 세계를 그린다. 캐릭터들은 실사로 촬영된 연기자의 움직임을 한장 한장 선을 주워 그리는 기법으로 표현되어, 이란영화에서 좀처럼 볼 수 없는 충격적인 장면을 담는다. 마약중독자 남편과 이혼을 준비하고 청각 장애아 아들을 데리고 다니며 일하는 성매매 여성, 남편의 허락없이 취업하려는 임산부, 지하클럽에서 일하는 음악가와 원나잇을 하는 결혼식을 앞둔 젊은 여성 등은 각자의 사연으로 서로 만나고 얽힌다. 사회적으로 엄격한 이란에서 여성은 어떤 모습으로든 희생자가 됨을 고발한다. 금기에 맞서 도전하는 개인의 슬픈 서사가 화려한 색감과 모던한 사운드로 이뤄진 스타일 위로 반짝거린다. (2017년 22회 부산국제영화제/정민아)

Police chief Horst Krause is retired. Together with his sister Elsa, he takes care of the inn in Schönhorst. But none of that makes him happy.

A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.

Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival of the world! When she arrives at the 65. Cannes film festival, she has face the accomplished facts: David, her incompetent producer, has kindly sublet their cosy joint apartment to other festival guests. The other bad news: There is not a single movie in the competition directed by a woman! This affirms Isabell’s qualms: The film business demands women to gear up instead of dressing up low cut! Moreover, the chauvinistic remarks of her comrade-in-arms David who feels comfortable around the clichéd gender stereotypes from the Stone Age seemingly prevalent in Cannes infuriate Isabell. As if this wasn’t enough already, a shattering feedback on her new film project by a potential investor finally causes her to doubt herself. Before she can live her dream up at the Olympus of film business, she must first find out who really believes in her.

Martina and her partner Ralf, who run a restaurant together in Cologne, enjoy their holiday in Brittany - until one day Ralf does not return from a sailing trip. The Breton police believe in a sailing accident and make Martina little hope that her friend has survived. But Martina does not want to accept Ralf's death and begins a desperate search on the coast of Brittany. However, when this remains in vain, Martina returns to Germany.

Anja lives with her parents in a small town somewhere in Germany. She is about to graduate, but the weekend is usually celebrated. When Anja runs home from a party one morning, she is hit by a car on the highway. Apparently not much has happened. After the first shock has subsided, everyone is relieved that the accident has gone so smoothly. First. But it is becoming increasingly clear that Anja is no longer the same. She sleeps badly, suffers from panic attacks and delusions. It's as if she's been followed by gloomy shadows since that party night.

Nina Hausen, head of an escort agency, is attacked by a stranger on her nocturnal walk with the dog in the forest. Only with difficulty can she escape him by touching him with her car and seriously injuring him. On the way back she finds in her car a bag of diamonds - apparently the ransom from a case in which a boy was kidnapped. Under pressure from a colleague reports Nina Although the robbery of the police, the diamonds but suppresses them. But that's where their problems really start ...